Procedures Committee, 01 Mar 2005

Meeting date: Tuesday, March 1, 2005

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Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland (Draft Changes to Standing Orders)

We will deal with item 2 and then suspend for a short time before the next witness arrives—we are not expecting them until 12.30.

Item 2 is on the draft changes to standing orders and the report that we agreed at a previous meeting on the Commissioner for Public Appointments. We will go through the changes one by one to see whether members are content with them. I refer to paper PR/S2/05/3/6.

Are members content with change 1, to insert new rule 17.5 on consulting the Parliament?

Members indicated agreement.

Are members happy with change 2, to rename chapter 3A "Commissioners"?

Members indicated agreement.

Are members happy with change 3, to delete the words "for appointment"?

Members indicated agreement.

Are members content with change 4, to rename rules 3A.3 and 3A.4.

Members indicated agreement.

Are members content with change 5?

Members indicated agreement.

Are they content with change 6?

Members indicated agreement.

Are they content with change 7?

Members indicated agreement.

Are they content with change 8?

Members indicated agreement.

In that case, we can say that we are content with the proposed changes, which will be appended to the final version of the report. The intention is to publish the report on Monday 7 March. It is presently scheduled for a short, half-hour debate in the Parliament on 16 March.

I suspend the meeting until 12.30, at which point we will resume the evidence taking on the Sewel convention inquiry.

Meeting suspended.

On resuming—